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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1861, 23 July 1886, Page 2

At tbe Oreylown R. M. Court yesterday a civil case, B. B. Manibera v. B. Hall, damages £l, was heard before Messrs Wood audSpratt and dismissed. Mr Gladstone's Government has resigned and Lord Salisbury sent for by the Queen. Mrs W. Taylor, sen., Nelson, died on Monday, from the effects of a bee sting.

A meeting of unem ployed was held in D uneui u yesterday. The list shows 93 men,represent' ing 350 souls, enable to get work. It is proposed to - memorialise the Government. The Premier has telegraphed to the unemployed at Auckland that he will consult with Minister of Public Works and see what can be done.

The following are the names of the team of footballers from the Wanderer’s Club, which will proceed from Greytown to-morrow at one o’clock to play the second fifteen of the Red Stars at Masterton J. Maguire (captain), A. Smith, G. Hawke, K. Gngg, H, Terry, F. Hawke, A. Collier, J. Ryan, A. Mitchell, J. Phillips. C. Varnham.M. Jacobs, E, Humphries. A Wakelin, and D, Baillie. Emergency—J. Quin.

The committee of the Wairarapa Litarary Institute have about £SO in the bank, the proceeds of the Winter Entertainments. In addition to this there is a £25 donation from the Greytown Town Lands Trust. Mr Burnett’s lecture at Martinborough on Wednesday was a very successful one. The audience completely filled the Presbyterian Church and many outside were nnable to find admittance. The lecture was well received. No less than 33 donned the blue—among them some who had come to laugh at the mission. The lecture was the one great theme of conversation in the township yesterday we are told, Mr Burnett did indeed score one at Martinboiough.

The Wairarapa Rugby Football Union have received their uniforms ordered from the New Zealand Clothing Factory. The color is dark green with the letters WEP 9 worked on the breast of the guernsey. The dresses will be worn for the first time tomorrow in the game to be played on the Greytown reserve.

Remedy for Hard Times.—Stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich food, and style. Buy good feod, cheaper and better clothing, and stop the habit of nsing expensive or quack doctors, or humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in the greatest of all simple, pure remedies, American Co's Hop Bitters, that cure always at a trifling cost, and you will see better times and good health. Read

In order that the people of Qreytown may have an opportunity of selecting the latest pieces of music, vocal and instrumental, Mr W. 0. Nation has made an arrangement with Mr W. H. Spiller, the music seller, «f Wellington, to keep a stock at tbe Standabd Office. The collection of music will be a varied one, comprising comic and sentimental songs, duets and choruses, and instrumental music for piano, piano and violin, <fco., &o. It is hoped that a stock of well selected music will be acceptable at the present time when so many are taking part in the Winter Entertainments. Mr Nation has undertaken an agency for Neumeyer’s pianos and will be glad to give every information as to price, terms, &o. Parents with a family growing up should introduce music into the horns if possible. It binds the household together and has an elevating tendency. An instrument can be had on very easy terms. Despairing Bankers.—The number of suicides among the brightest and most capable of business men, bankers and others, will be reduced to a minimum as soon as tbe specific virtues of Am. Hop Bitters are known. As all men who work with their brains and neglect to take tbe needed exercise, the food taken does not nourish ; and dangerous debility physical and mortal ensue. Bead

A meeting of the Royal Masterton Lodge of Oddfellows look place last Tuesday night, when the following officers were installed into their various offices for the ensuing term G. M., Bro.VV, Mckenzie ; N. G., Bro Ranby ; E. S., Bro Cole ; V G , Bro Felling ; B. S., Bro. Dalrvmple ; auditors, Bros Coker, R Brown, and Kibblewhite ; delegate, Bro. Jago. A discussion took place on the imponant subject of having an annual moveab.e Committee for New Zealand also the question of a guarantee fund for officers of the Order, and the delegate was instructed to support the same at the District meeting - Daily.

Mumps are very prevalent in Carterton just. now.

The Test of Actual Trial This is what proves the merit of a preparation. The proprietor of Green's August* Flower, know* ing its valuable properties, meets this test boldly by preparing sample bottles of this remedy, which are sold at 6d. This enables doubters so try its virtues at a trifling expense. August Flower is a panacea for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the liver, including Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Head* ache, Costiveness, &c., &c. Three doses will relieve any of the above, and a faithful use will certainly cure. No medicine in the world has ever given such a proof of its merits. Druggists recommend it with perfect confidence and physicians prescribe it regularly. Price for full sized bottle 3s. 6d. Sold by all druggists. The London correspondent of a Canterbury paper says This will be a good year for frozen mutton. The winter was so. long and severe that all the hay and roots have been used up, leaving all stock, both cattle and sheep, in very poor condition, There will be no fat stock all the summer, except those largely fed on cake and other artificial food. Several times when out in the country lately, I have noticed lambs taken from the ewes and stall fed to try and get them into condition for the butcher.

McDonald, keeper of the Victorian street den, Auckland has been sentenced to three months, for sly-grog selling £25 or a month, and to find two sureties for twelve months for £2OO. This will practically give him i 5 month’s imprisonment. Three of the girls were discharged through giving evidence against him, and three others were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment. The social state of things disclosed among the lower class is appalling. Captain Kelly, one of the oldest pilots at Otago Heads, died on Wednesday. The triennial Property Tax valuation return, laid upon the table of the House the other night, shows a great improvement in property valuations, notwithstanding the depression which has prevailed during the past three years. The total rateable valuation of boroughs at the 1885 assessment amounted to /32.377.0y8, as against £27,607,897 for 1882, or an increase of £4,769201 ; and of the counties to £64.435.542. as against £06,274,543, or a decrease of £2,819,001. But £3,70,000 has to be added to the proportion of Crown lands, on which rates are payable by occupiers, which is set out in a separate statement this year, but was included in the toial for 1882. The total rateable value ot the properties of the colony in ISBS was £100,532,640, as against £93,882,440 for 1882, or an increase of nearly seven millions

Don’t Dio In The House. “Hough on rata ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed hugs, dies, ants, moles, jack-rabbits, insects, gophers. Kempthorue, Prosser and Co., Agents.

Papers relative to the Maori census were laid on the table of the House tho other night. In the Hutt county there are 291 Maoris ; Wairarapa East, 297 ; VVairarapa West, 289 ; Rangitikei, 336 ; Oroua, 278 ; Manawatu, 235 I Horowhenna, 550 ; Wanganui, 1,112; Waitotara, 120; Patea, Hawera, Taranaki, and Clifton counties 2,960. Skinny Men. " Wells’ Health Renewer" restores health and vigor, cures. Dyspepsia, impotence, Debility. At druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents. Christchurch. A terrible accident happened the other morning in the railway yard, Westport. Mr Campbell, miner and contractor, was struck by a loaded coal train, and cut to pieces.

“ Bough on Corns.” Ask tor Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kemp(horne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch